# Snapshots

Opens a dialog for managing snapshots. As the name suggests, snapshots are saved versions of a stream. A snapshot can be created for one single stream and called up at any time. A created snapshot refers only to the stream in the current opened Streamdesigner. If a snapshot is called, it is loaded into the stream and the current settings of the stream are overwritten. The function is therefore not to be understood in terms of versioning, since a stream can only ever exist once in the system. It is a way of saving the state of a stream and calling it up again later. Enabling the button ‘Show all’ makes all global snapshots from other streams visible. The following functions are available:

<figure><img src="/files/WgmgWAqjDIb8rcKpBhCs" alt=""><figcaption><p>Snapshots</p></figcaption></figure>

#### New Snapshot:

Opens a dialog with which it is possible to add new snapshots. Opens a dialog with which it is possible to add new snapshots. The character length of the name is limited to 255 characters.

<figure><img src="/files/A1MxCLFf9D9pkNHiyXPe" alt=""><figcaption><p>Add new snapshot </p></figcaption></figure>


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